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Wouldn’t work ... but messed about with it ... and it worked! Thanks.

One last help.... how do i:
1) Add and delete a user (I know 'deluser' and 'adduser' does it), but in a menu type...

Im getting 'Invalid Option'

Is this correct:

echo "Would you like to reboot the box?"
echo "Ok to procede?"; read ans

case "$ans" in
...

I need to have a script that can do an automated IPL function (how to reboot the box). I think ‘reboot’ would do the trick.

However, how would I go about doing it, for example if the user states...

I will be honest, it is. But i am just finding it hard. Any help is much appreciated.

Thanks mate,

Hope im not asking for too much but, How would i write a script in a bash shell that can:
a) reboot the box
b) prefix a reboot with a suitable warning and pause
c) ping an IP...

Sorry to bother again, but what command will show the name of
1)the running system, &
2)the O/S.

I tried uname -a, how would i cut the info from this using awk or grep. Also by doing uname -o...

Thanks for your help.

Best Regards.

Hiya all ... i am a newbie to UNIX,

Just want to knwo what this command does:
/sbin/ifconfig eth0 | grep 'inet addr:' | cut -d: -f2 | awk '{ print $1}'

I think, 'grep shows the line with 'inet...